concurrent

UK/kəŋˈkʌɹənt/

adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,632 of 15,258mostly written

Concurrent means happening at the same time as something else. Concurrent sentences, run concurrent, concurrent sessions.

In sentencing it matters enormously: concurrent sentences are served together and consecutive ones one after another, so two five-year terms may mean five years or ten. In computing, concurrency is doing several things in overlapping time. Note that the Latin means running together.

Definitions of concurrent

1adjectiveconcurrentHappening at the same time as something else.C1
“The hospital is running two concurrent studies on the new drug.”

concurrent is a quality of simultaneity.

Where it comes from

Latin concurrens comes from concurrere, to run together — con plus currere. Current, occur and course come from the same running.

Proto-Indo-European
*ḱers-
Latin
concurrēns
Old French
concurrent
Middle English
concurrent
English, today
concurrent

Built from

concurrō · Latin — happen at the same time
con- · Latin — with
currō · Latin — run

From Middle English concurrent, from Old French concurrent, from Latin concurrēns, present active participle of concurrō (“happen at the same time”), from con- (“with”) + currō (“run”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Academic English

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concurrent in the wild

Concurrent powers can therefore be divided into two kinds: those not generally subject to federal pre-emption, such as the power to tax private citizens, and other concurrent powers.
Concurrent powers
In property law, a concurrent estate or co-tenancy is any of various ways in which property is owned by more than one person at a time.
Concurrent estate
Pioneers in the field of concurrent computing include Edsger Dijkstra, Per Brinch Hansen, and C.A.R.
Concurrent computing
As suggested by its name, the CDF uses concurrent engineering methodology to perform effective, fast and cheap space mission studies.
Concurrent Design Facility

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the currō family

course

concurrent — used about once every 15,236 pages · #12,632 · point at the bar for the others

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